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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2008.06.18 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">from Heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Fred wrote about euphenisms for "toilet/ lavatory" and it reminded me of a sad story I read long ago.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the first ships to leave Singapore as the Japanese advanced,
and which was carrying women and children, was torpedoed and sunk. The
adults who survived gathered up as many children as possible and as
they drifted to shore tried to keep up their spirits. This story was
related by an Australian nurse who along with half a dozen children was
clinging to a large piece of wood. One little girl said to the nurse.
"I want to go upstairs" and the nurse misunderstanding the meaning,
explained that they would soon be safely on shore and that they would
able to go to sleep then. " No" said the little girl, " I need to go
upstairs" and the poor lamb kept repeating her request. Eventually
another child explained that " She wants to do a no. 1" At last the
nurse understood and explained that as they were in the water, it would
be quite alright for her just to 'go' there and then. But the poor
child so trained in her habits wouldn't ( or couldn't) 'go' until she
had been helped into pulling her knickers down.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sad such habits that we breed into our children.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather</p><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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